Watching Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner: An interesting article on PR--Who pays the bills for spinning the news?

Watching Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner

This is an attempt to cover incumbent EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and developments around him and his work... This is, thus, a contribution --not from the social justice viewpoint as such, but springing more from my atavistic, as it were, cynicism about Mandelson himself. Who's afraid of Peter Mandelson? He has the power to change the face of Africa and the developing world with the swipe of his pen. He's a powerful man. Who's afraid of Peter Mandelson? I certainly am.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

An interesting article on PR--Who pays the bills for spinning the news?

Who pays the bills for spinning the news? Mar 8 2005
By Andy Kelly, Daily Post

PETER MANDELSON, Alastair Campbell and Jo Moore - perhaps the three most infamous purveyors of government "spin" in the last decade.

The latter, of course, took her profession to new heights of cynicism by suggesting September 11, 2001, would be a good day for civil servants to bury bad news. An appalled nation made sure she paid for it with her job.

But you do not have to go as far as the halls of Westminster to see the art of news management and "spin" in action.

READ MORE here

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I love Brussels, but I had to come back to my home of Accra, Ghana in Aug 2004 to work professionally. My journal-writing since 1989 only goes to underscore how the blogosphere is good country for me: it complements my various writings—including since Oct 2007, those for Ghana’s only Sunday newspaper Sunday World as ICT/Technology columnist, which position was seconded by a former boss.

Watching Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

An interesting article on PR--Who pays the bills for spinning the news?

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